Abstract: A cassette holder has multiple compartments; each compartment has a leaf spring for urging a cassette into one or the other of two stable positions. The first stable position, a cassette stored position, has the spring bearing on top of a cassette and forcing the cassette tightly against the bottom of a compartment. The second position, a cassette removal position, has the spring bearing against the upper back wall of a cassette to maintain the cassette canted with an upper corner protruding from the compartment for ease of grasping by a user. A pivot at the junction of a pocket and an upper section of the back wall of each compartment rotates a cassette to the removal position upon the application of finger pressure on the bottom of the cassette. A second pivot in the form of a foot at the entrance of each cassette causes the cassettes to pivot out of the compartment on being pulled and prevents a cassette from being pulled directly out of a compartment.

Abstract: A tape cartridge holder comprising a container provided with transverse cartridge compartments respectively having resilient retainers therein along one side of the container and respectively engageable with the edges of cartridges in the compartments. The retainers comprise integral parts of a retainer assembly including a common retainer base from which the retainers project and with which the retainers are integrally formed. The container has a bottom wall provided adjacent one side thereof with a slot within which the retainer base is positioned with the retainers projecting into the compartments along one side of the container. The retainer base in the slot is secured to the container to support the retainers within the compartments.